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16 Dhū l-Qaʿda 537 Hijrī (2 June 1143 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

It seems that they owe a debt of 80 dinars ("al-naqd al-Ḥāfiẓī al-Miṣrī...") to another Jewish man, Abū l-Ḥasan b.

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• to edit

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Judaeo-Arabic

Very rudimentary hand and spellings (e.g., ושׁעא for والساعة and אלה for both الله and الى and נדרכם for نظركم; also שׁ for س and שׂ for ش). The sender mentions fear on account of the addressee and plans to travel to Ibrāhīm and "visit the country" (nazūr al-bilād) "if we live till next year."

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

ḥijja ʾumot), and the matter is up to God the exalted... the animal driver (mukārī) and the sale of the lead (bayʿ al-raṣāṣ)... soon with an explanation of all this... to the knowledge of Rabbenu Yosef... al-Daryānī(?)

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Mentions a book in the handwriting of al-Shaykh Abū l-ʿIzz, whom Frenkel identifies as possibly identical with Abū l-ʿIzz the brother of Sitt Ghazāl, the wife of Shelomo b. […] (Information from CUDL and Allony et al.)

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• bible
• book trade
• codices
• register

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Verso: Accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, possibly in a neater version of the same handwriting. On this side, the alephs at least look like those of Yosef b. Shemuel b. […] Might be communal accounts for revenue from rentals (e.g., al-ṭabaqa) for Sivan and Tammuz. Mentions names such as Umm Baqāʾ and Murajjā.

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• account

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1339 Seleucid (1027–1028 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Sahl brings Menashshe b. Yaʿaqov b. al-Nihmi to court. The latter promises to pay him one and one-fourth dinars until Iyyar 1028 CE; he owed him three and one-eighth dinars. (Information from Goitein's index cards) EMS. Alternate description: 2r: Release from debt by Samuel b. […] Sahl for Menashshe b. Jacob Ibn al-Nihmī, 1339 of the Seleucid Era (= 1028 CE) in Fusṭāṭ.

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21st Tammuz 1437 Seleucid (14 July 1126 CE)

Primary language

Aramaic

The divorce is between Sasson b. Mevorakh and Sitt al-Ahl bt. Yaḥyā. The witnesses are Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b. […] The verso contains the acceptance of the bill of divorce by the wife, signed also by Yiṣḥaq b. Shemuel ha-Sefaradi and Ḥalfon b.

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Adar I 1437 Seleucid (27 January 1126–25 February 1126 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Dated: Adar I 1437 Seleucid, which is 1126 CE. Abū l-Munā al-ʿAṭṭār Yaʿaqov b. David ha-Parnas declares that he has received from Abū l-Munā Shelomo b. […] (Information from CUDL and Goitein's index card.) See also JRL Gaster heb. ms 1760/5 (PGPID 32315).

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17 Shevaṭ 5500 Anno Mundi (15 February 1740 CE)

Primary language

Ladino

Letter from Yosef כיטו(?), in Alexandria, to Yaʿaqov אלחנאצי (=al-Ḥanesī = "of Ḥanes (Damietta)"), in Fustat/Cairo.

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• condolence
• grief
• ladino

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer tells her to pack her belongings and to come immediately with the bearer of the letter to the house of Mūsā. She should also bring the book (muṣḥaf) from the house of Sitt al-Jamāl and a specified bunch of papers.

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• 13th c

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Inferred date

1168–1204 CE

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Miryam asks her brother to enquire after the whereabouts of her son and to induce him to contact her, last quarter of the 12th century. She also asks Moshe to send along greetings to their brother David, who died in 1177.

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• 12th c
• maimonides
• miryam maimonides
• personal
• women's letters

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

Very tantalizing subject matter, possibly written on the occasion of a change of government (tabdīl al-dawla). Mentions communal matters and the sulṭān; sounds like a communal letter or sermon addressed to a group, but then the text in the margin conveys greetings to a single person, mentioning names such as Yosef, Shemuʾel, and Elʿazar. Also mentions a man who lost his two sons in the same year.

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Letter from Yusuf b. Musa al-Tāhartī, probably from Mahdiyya, to Nahray b. […] The writer describes difficulties in selling and mentions various goods, including carthamus, camphor, sugar, resin, crocus, indigo, wheat, wool, wood, ruby, beads, pearls, oil and more. Yusuf also discusses trading with Spain and the Maghreb, even though the roads are dangerous, and notes the passing of his brother, Barhun b.

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• hinge

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter in a Spanish hand to R. Yiṣḥaq al-ḥaver al-jalīl. The sender was in great anxiety until Abū Zekharya b. Yūnus and Abū l-[...] al-Khaybarī reported about the addressee's health and safety.

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• to edit

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Primary language

Hebrew

Letter from Yeshu'a ha-Kohen ha-Ḥaver, an official in Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim. Yeshu'a writes to raise money to free three Jews held by Italian merchants. […] The pirates had beaten and almost killed their captives. Jewish communities in Egyptian port towns bore the brunt of these expenses.

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• byzantines
• byzantium
• captives
• italy
• merchants
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Document date

First decade of Iyyar 1526 Seleucid (April 1215 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Berakhot (aka Mūsā b. Abū l-Barakāt) Ibn al-Maqdisi grants his attorney Sulaymān b. Maḥāsin a long list of rights to act as his substitute in his claim over the estate of Dalāl bt. Abū ʿImrān, the daughter of a paternal cousin who died in Alexandria. Witnesses: Ḥalfon b. Elʿazar ha-Kohen; Meir b.

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• power of attorney

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Bill of sale for a female slave. Sitt al-Ḥusn bt. Avraham, the wife of Yakhin, sells the female slave ʿUshshāq to Sitt al-Fakhr bt. […] The enslaved woman was pregnant and had been for some time in the buyers house, who accepts all her 'defects.' The sale is confirmed by the two husbands, and the husband of the seller stands security for 15 dinars in case any claims were made on ʿUshshāq by others.

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• register
• slave

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Natan b. Nahray, Alexandria, to Nahray b. Nissim, Fustat. Dating: Ca. 1062 CE (Gil). […] Ḥananel; and the dire situation in al-Mahdiyya. Nahray was very worried about ʿIwāḍ, but he ended up improving (lines 6–7).

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• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• illness: fright
• nahray b. nissim
• trade

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Letter from Mūsā b. Iṣḥaq b. Nissim al-ʿĀbid (al-Mahdiya) to Avraham b. Daʾūd al-Raḥbī (Fustat), ca. 1030.

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• laque
• oil
• pearls
• pepper
• precious stones
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Primary language

Hebrew

Yitrō, a learned merchant from Damascus who had lost all his riches. The letter includes a length Hebrew introduction, in which the name of the addressee, Mevorkh b. […] (Information from Mediterranean Society, II, pp. 474-475, App. C 8.) See also T-S AS 148.42 + T-S 10J20.20 (PGPID 2949) -another letter of request from the same author, addressed to another dignitary.

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• communal
• damascus

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Letter from Jalāl al-Dawla, in Fustat, to Shelomo ha-Nasi b. Yishay, in Bilbays. […] As part of a litany of complaints, he mentions that he has been sick many times and nearly died (v25–26). His sicknesses also feature in T-S 12.654 and T-S NS 321.93. (Information from Gil, Kingdom, II, pp. 264f.)

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• 13th c
• illness
• illness letter 969-1517
• mosul nasis

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Primary languages

Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

The sender read the letter which the addressee sent to Abū l-Munajjā and seems to have been very offended by it (fa-wajadahu al-khādim li-ghāya mā yumkin min al-naqīṣa fī ḥaqq al-mamlūk).

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The 12 names in the upper list are repeated in the lower (which has one more), often in abbreviated form (Abu al-Majd: Majd; Najib al-Ma'tuq: Najib). The contributions, ranging from 1/2 to 1 1/2 (dirhams), are almost identical in the two lists, perhaps a collection for two musicians at a minor family affair.

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• 13th c
• charity
• communal
• donors
• poverty

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Primary language

Arabic

Headed by the glyph followed by 'al-mamālīk al-ʿazīza.' Subsections are headed by 'al-wāṣil' and 'waṣala.'

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• clothing
• shoes
• soap

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Tammuz 1481 Seleucid (16 June 1170–14 July 1170 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

Refers to a house; "the Rabbanite Jerusalemites"; various sums of money in the hundreds of dirhams; and perhaps conditions regarding construction (עמארה) on the house. The parties include al-Rayyis Abū Zikrī and Karīm. The document is also signed by Aharon b.

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15 Shawwāl 545 Hijrī (4 February 1151 CE)

Primary language

Arabic

Jawshan and mentioning the eastern neighborhood (al-ḥāra al-sharqiyya) in the district (nāḥiya) of Sinnūris. […] Written on verso of a tax receipt in the hand of the jahbadh Mīkhāʾīl b. ʿAbd al-Masīḥ dated 2 or 8 Dhū l-Qaʿda 405 (April 1015) (see separate entry), suggesting that tax receipts may have been archived and retained for more than a century.

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Primary language

Arabic

"The slave renews the kissing of the ground...." (al-mamlūk yujaddid taqbīl (al-arḍ)). Mentions cows and calves and people named Muḥammad b. Mudāfiʿ and Shibl al-Dawla b. [...]. Verso: Incomplete bill of delivery of 48 different materia medica with numbers (prices) only (i.e., no weights or quantities).

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Primary language

Arabic

The ends of two lines are preserved, mentioning the amīr Zayn al-Mulk wa-ʿAlam [al-Dawla, probably]: لم تمسك بها واعتمد عليها . . .

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• dimme

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Document date

1424 Seleucid (23 September 1112–12 September 1113 CE)

Primary languages

Aramaic, Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic

They settle their dispute by agreeing that they each own (nominal) equal shares in the house, and each has complete rights to his or her share and may sell or donate as he or she chooses. See also T-S 13J2.17 (PGPID 1003). (Information mainly from Mediterranean Society, III, pp. 334, 502.) Join: Alan Elbaum

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• marital dispute

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Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

The writer, who is apparently on his travels, is very worried about his children as he did not receive any letters during his two-month stay in Alexandria (he complains, "it is as if I have fallen into a well"). He explains that ‘Muslims and Jews were not separated from those they were negotiating with’, and mentions Abū Manṣūr, his father, possibly Abū l-Maʿālī, a Ḥaver, Abū l-Surūr al-Ḥemdat, and [...] ha-Levi. (Information from CUDL)

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Arabic, Judaeo-Arabic

Recto: list of names from a family, possibly for tax purposes, under the heading ‘the house of al-Malījī, the teacher’, mentioning Abū l-Ḥasan Yefet; his children; his brother ʿImrān and his son Mufaḍḍal; Shela and his brother Fakhr; Joseph and his son Yeshuʿa. Verso: List in Arabic script with a similar layout. Mentions Sharaf al-Dīn; 1/4 raṭl of some commodity; and apples. Written in the margin: "in the hand of the leader (al-raʾīs) Abū l-Bahāʾ from..." (Information in part from CUDL)

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Document date

Thursday, 13 Kislev 1342 Seleucid (11 November 1030 CE)

Primary language

Hebrew

Mevorakh the attorney (פקיד) of Binyamin b. Yaʿaqov al-Baṣrī releases Isḥāq b. Ṭayyib al-Ṣayrafī from all obligations except 21 + 1/2 + 1 qiat, to be repaid in installments of 1 dinar per month.

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(Information from Goitein's note cards) Two bifolia of similar size, but P1 contains a child's early attempts at writing the alphabet, along with childish drawings (including a menora (?)[…] P2-P3 contain more presumably a different child’s more accomplished alphabetical exercises, with Tiberian vocalisation, poetry, and an attempt at a decorative חזק.

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• education

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Document date

Sunday night, 20 Ṭevet 1578 Seleucid (20 December 1266 CE)

Primary language

Judaeo-Arabic

There are three different text blocks, all belonging to the same document, oriented at 90 degrees to each other. […] The document seems to be setting the conditions for the marriage of Abū Saʿd b. al-Rayyis and Thiqa bt. Abū l-Riḍā b. al-Tifʾeret.

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